Pinterest for Writers

Pinterest. If you haven't heard of it you probably aren't a mom, craft blogger, or about to get married.

But if you are a writer, you should be on pinterest. If you have readers foaming at the mouth for your next project, you should be on pinterest.

Why?

Pinterest is like having a bulletin board for your book. Say you are busy browsing the Internet instead of editing. You come across a picture, word or song that is just like you picture in your head for xyz part of your book. Instead of clogging up your bookmarks with random links to pages that don't even make sense five days later, you click "pin it" and the picture is essentially pinned to your online bulletin board. It's kind of like twitter for images. (sort of)

This means, you have a great visual way to see your book. You can even pin videos on youtube. If you have books out, this is a great way to enhance the readers experience. Okay, this is super embarrassing but after I finished Twilight I totally went all "I must have more!" and went to SM's website. Do you know how awesome it would have been to see a pinterest board with all her "visuals" pinned? Like the picture of what'shisface that she envisioned Edward as (which is on her blog), or how about the song she replayed over and over for writing Chapter x. See where I'm going?

Plus, you never have to worry about copyright issues because the images link back to the original site.

With an online bulletin board for past projects, you use technology to enhance the reader experience. Using it for future projects helps you keep track of inspiration, plus allows you to give hints and build anticipation for future projects.

Anyone can follow you on pinterest, and you can create different boards for each project. It's amazing.
It's also awesome for wedding ideas, crafts, home school, dinner, tattoos, and funny sayings.

Here is a screenshot of my board for TANTRUM TO BLIND. See what I mean by digital bulletin board? If you click on each entry, it brings you to a page where you have the origin link, html code, a direct link to that page and a bigger version of the image. For media, you can also hit play and watch it without leaving Pinterest. Awesome, huh?

Here is my pinterest profile if you would like to follow me: http://pinterest.com/snlemon/